Interesting use-cases for the Reminders app.

Even so, there are some neat features of Apple’s Reminders that can make your life a lot easier.

I haven’t found anything new about Reminders in this article, but it can be useful to others.
On the other hand, the use case of birthdays just doesn’t make sense.

A couple of years ago I quit Facebook. One of its last remaining utilities was helping me remember friend’s birthdays and I meant to transition everyone to a Reminders list, but only got a handful done. Even so, it’s been nice to have a short list of birthdays to check out every time I worry I forgot someone’s birthday.

For birthdays, use the Contacts app in conjunction with the Birthdays calendar in the Calendar app.
You can also create a smart list in Contacts for upcoming birthdays in the next N days.

Update: by the way, I forgot that I also wrote a lengthy article on how to use Apple Reminders for GTD.